Red Book

Red Book n.  1. Informal name for one of the three 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
   U.S.A. 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}.  See also {{book titles}}.