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green book
(foldoc) | Green Book
1. 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. 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. 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. The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems
Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book".
5. 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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green book cd-rom
(foldoc) | Green Book CD-ROM
A standard CD-ROM format developed by Philips for CD-i.
It is ISO 9660 compliant and uses mode 2 form 2 addressing.
It can only be played on drives which are XA ({Extended
Architecture}) compatible.
Many Green Book discs contain CD-i applications which can
only be played on a CD-i player but many others contain
films or music videos. Video CDs in Green Book format are
normally labelled "Digital Video on CD"
Green Book was obsoleted by White book CD-ROM in March 1994.
(1994-11-02)
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