Green Book definition
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)
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