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Orange Book is an informal name for a number of official publications, including:

It was also a name of The Orange Book - Reclaiming Liberalism, a book written by a group of prominent British Liberal Democrat politicians, who in it offered free market solutions to several social issues. The United States Food and Drug Administration is the government agency responsible for regulating food, dietary supplements, drugs, cosmetics, medical devices, biologics and blood products in the United States. ... TCSEC (Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria; commonly called the Orange Book), is a standard for computer security that was issued by the US government. ... A CD_R (Compact Disc_Recordable) is a thin (1. ... In computing and data storage, Compact Disc Rewritable, or CD-RW, is a rewritable version of CD-ROM. Whereas standard prerecorded compact discs have their information permanently stamped into an aluminium reflecting layer, CD-RW discs have a phase-change recording layer and an additional aluminium reflecting layer. ... Categories: Stub | Rainbow Books ... The Orange Book - Reclaiming Liberalism (ISBN 1861977972) is a book written by a group of prominent British Liberal Democrat politicians and edited by David Laws and Paul Marshall in 2004. ... The Liberal Democrats, often shortened to Lib Dems, are a social liberal political party based in the United Kingdom. ...


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Non-standard CD-Rs are available with capacities of 79 minutes and 59.74 seconds/736,966,656 bytes (702 MiB), which they achieve by slightly exceeding the tolerances specified in the Orange Book CD standards.
The CD-R, originally named CD write-once (WO), specification was first published in 1988 by Philips and Sony in the 'Orange Book'.
The Orange Book consists of several parts, furnishing details of the CD-WO, CD-MO (magneto-optic), and CD-RW (rewritable).
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