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. To make files up to 80 percent smaller, lossy compression is used. Lossy compression software removes some redundant data from a file. Because data is removed, the quality of the decompressed file is less than the original.