![]() ![]() Version 3.1.0, dated, probably corresponds roughly to what the writers were reading. The writers of Hackers lifted a lot of their jargon directly from the Jargon File, also known in its print version as The (New) Hacker's Dictionary. Stephen Kitt's answers are right, but I'd like to add some context. Red: Trusted Network Interpretation of the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, also part of the Rainbow Series. The dragon’s colour is used to distinguish the various incarnations of the book: the 1977 edition is the green dragon book, the 1986 edition seen in the film is the red dragon book, the 2006 second edition is the purple dragon book.) (People who read the dragon book before 1986, or who were told about it by someone who did, would recognise Principles of Compiler Design as the dragon book instead. The dragon book, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred V. Leffler, Marshall Kirk McKusick, Michael J. The devil book, The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Unix Operating System by Samuel J. Pink: The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC (Peter Norton wears a pink shirt in the cover photo, as can be seen in this Wikipedia article). Orange: Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria, part of the Rainbow Series published by the US DoD. Green: International UNIX Environments, probably part of POSIX or The X/Open Guide. Were these just made up flights of fancy or where these books real? I'm especially interested if the "ugly red book that won't fit on a shelf" was based on anything real. Otherwise known as 'The Ugly Red Book That Won't Fit On A Shelf'. So-called due to the nasty pink shirt the guy wears on the cover.Ĭrash Override: Devil book, the UNIX bible.Ĭrash Override: Dragon book, compiler design.Ĭrash Override: The Red book. DoD standards.Ĭrash Override: The pink-shirt book. Joey: What is that? Let me see? What are these?Ĭrash Override: International UNIX environments.Ĭrash Override: Computer security criteria. Phantom Phreak: You got those Crayola books?Ĭereal Killer: Yeah, technicolor rainbow. Joey: I'm in this computer, right? I'm looking around. Here's the transcript, if you can't watch the video: In this scene from the 1995 movie Hackers, Cereal pulls out several books referred to by different colors of the "technicolor rainbow", including a "green one", "luscious orange", the "Pink Shirt book", the "Devil book", "Dragon book", and a very large "Red book". ![]()
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