Lesson 5 - Memory and Updating

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Across
  1. 2. a thermal conductive metal device designed to absorb and disperse heat away from a high temperature object such as a computer processor.
  2. 4. the configuration that a system must have in order for a hardware or software application to run smoothly and efficiently.
  3. 7. computer memory that requires power to maintain the stored information
  4. 8. Small program that corrects or enhances existing software
  5. 9. computer memory that can retrieve stored information even after the computer has been shut off.
  6. 11. Collections of updates, fixes, or enhancements to software delivered as a single file.
  7. 12. printed circuit board on which memory integrated circuits are mounted.
Down
  1. 1. When the operating system is overused and spends more time swapping data than running software
  2. 3. a kind of memory that retains data in the absence of a power supply.
  3. 5. Collection of files (larger than a patch) that revises software to fix problems or provide enhancements.
  4. 6. a unique number or set of numbers assigned to a specific release of a software program, file, firmware, device driver, or even hardware.
  5. 10. a read-only memory whose contents can be erased and reprogrammed using a pulsed voltage.