:book titles:: There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally
tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the
dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous
feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this lexicon
under their own entries. See {Aluminum Book}, {Blue Book},
{Cinderella Book}, {Devil Book}, {Dragon Book}, {Green
Book}, {Orange Book}, {Pink-Shirt Book}, {Purple Book},
{Red Book}, {Silver Book}, {White Book}, {Wizard Book},
{Yellow Book}, and {bible}; see also {rainbow
series}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the
dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous
feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this lexicon
under their own entries. See {Aluminum Book}, {Blue Book},
{Cinderella Book}, {Devil Book}, {Dragon Book}, {Green
Book}, {Orange Book}, {Pink-Shirt Book}, {Purple Book},
{Red Book}, {Silver Book}, {White Book}, {Wizard Book},
{Yellow Book}, and {bible}; see also {rainbow
series}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with
the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous
feature of the cover.
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references on {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Reference
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Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985; QA76.73.P67P67... - rainbow series n.
Any of several series of technical
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The original rainbow series was the NCSC security... - White Book n.
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PostScript series,
describing the previously-secret format of Type ... - Blue Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard
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{{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook",
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