However, the full name and the initialism BAL almost immediately attached themselves in popular use to all assembly-language dialects on the System/360 and its descendants. BAL for BPS/360 was introduced with the System/360 in 1964.
Lossy format means that data was lost during conversion from original source, for example WAV to MP3 results in loss of audio data that most people can't hear, because they're â¦ probably have a terrible monitor chain.
Lossy compression is compression that yields much smaller files than lossless compression (sometimes ten times smaller, or even larger differences are possible), but it throws away some stuff, so if you decompress, you don't get exactly the same image/music/whatever back as what you put in.