Operating System Vocabulary #4
Across
- 2. a type of directory structure like the scheme of a file cabinet
- 7. the process of copying data from the backup media to a hard disk after a failure has been rectified
- 8. is a list of jobs that are awaiting to be processed. When a job is sent to a queue, it is simply added to the list of jobs. Computer programs often work with queues as a way to order tasks. For example, when the CPU finishes one computation, it will process the next one in the queue.
- 10. to enter information related to an account name and its password in order to access a computer resource the man could not sign into his Windows computer because he forgot his username and password.
- 11. the process of devoting a portion of processor time to each of several tasks
- 12. is any physical or virtual component of limited availability within a computer system. Every device connected to a computer system is a resource. Every internal system component is a resource.
Down
- 1. is a technique which enables many people, located at various terminals, to use a particular computer system at the same time. Time-sharing or multitasking is a logical extension of multiprogramming. Processor's time which is shared among multiple users simultaneously is termed as time-sharing.
- 3. to end a session with computer or network resource the server was set to automatically sign out users after 10 minutes of inactivity.
- 4. is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that are actually available on a given machine"which "creates the illusion to users of a very large (main) memory".
- 5. refers to the use of disk space to simulate memory
- 6. is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie
- 9. an extension to DOS that provides a graphic user interface
- 13. In computer science, particularly in operating systems, this is a variable or abstract data type that is used for controlling access, by multiple processes, to a common resource in a parallel programming or a multiuser environment.