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Green Book
  • n. One of the three standard PostScript references "PostScript Language Program Design", bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988; QA76. 73. P67P66 ISBN 0-201-14396-8); see also Red Book, Blue Book, and the White Book (sense 2).
  • Informal name for one of the three standard references on SmallTalk "Smalltalk-80 Bits of History, Words of Advice", by Glenn Krasner (Addison-Wesley, 1983; QA76. 8. S635S58; ISBN 0-201-11669-3) (this, too, is associated with blue and red books).
  • The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which defines an international standard UNIX environment that is a proper superset of POSIX/SVID; 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.
  • The IEEE 1003. 1 POSIX Operating Systems Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book".
  • Any of the 1992 standards issued by the CCITT's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other things, the X. 400 email standard and the Group 1 through 4 fax standards. See also book titles.