green book

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green book - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Green Book
  
     1.  <publication> Informal name for one of the four standard
     references on PostScript.  The other three official guides
     are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the White Book
     .
  
     ["PostScript Language Program Design", Adobe Systems,
     Addison-Wesley, 1988 (ISBN 0-201-14396-8)].
  
     2. <publication> Informal name for one of the three standard
     references on SmallTalk.  Also associated with blue and red
     books.
  
     ["Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice", by Glenn
     Krasner (Addison-Wesley, 1983; QA76.8.S635S58; ISBN
     0-201-11669-3)].
  
     3.  <publication> The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which
     defines an international standard Unix environment that is a
     proper superset of POSIX/SVID.  It also includes
     descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems
     administrations features, and the like.  This grimoire is
     taken with particular seriousness in Europe.  See Purple Book
     .
  
     4.  <publication> The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems
     Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book".
  
     5.  <publication> Any of the 1992 standards issued by the
     ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly.  These include, among other
     things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and
     the Group 1 through 4 fax standards.
  
     6. Green Book CD-ROM.
  
     See also book titles.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-12-03)