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.
A compressed sound file sacrifices some loss in quality (hence the term âlossyâ) as a tradeoff for a smaller footprint or file size. MP3 audio files are a perfect example. A 20MB wave file can be converted to MP3 format, resulting in a file thatâs just a few megabytes in size.