Red Book n.
1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on
PostScript ("PostScript Language
Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985;
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition
ISBN 0-201-18127-4); the others are known as the Green Book, the Blue Book, and the White Book (sense 2). 2. Informal name
for one of the 3 standard references on Smalltalk ("Smalltalk-80:
The Interactive Programming Environment" by Adele Goldberg
(Addison-Wesley, 1984; QA76.8.S635G638; ISBN 0-201-11372-4); this
too is associated with blue and green books). 3. Any of the 1984
standards issued by the CCITT eighth plenary assembly. These
include, among other things, the X.400 email spec and the Group 1
through 4 fax standards. 4. The new version of the Green Book (sense 4) -- IEEE 1003.1-1990,
a.k.a ISO 9945-1 -- is (because of the color and the fact that it
is printed on A4 paper) known in the USA as "the Ugly Red Book
That Won't Fit On The Shelf" and in Europe as "the Ugly Red Book
That's A Sensible Size". 5. The NSA "Trusted Network
Interpretation" companion to the Orange Book. 6. Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass,
Hein; "Unix System Administration Handbook, Second Edition"
(Prentice Hall PTR, New Jersey; 1995; QA76.76.063N45; ISBN
0-13-151051-7). See also book
titles.