PC
Across
- 2. electrical component that can "make" or "break" an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another
- 7. one of the earliest operating systems based on the Linux kernel
- 11. smallest controllable element of a picture represented on the screen
- 13. part of a computer system that consists of data or computer instructions
- 14. passive heat exchanger that transfers the heat generated by an electronic or a mechanical device to a fluid medium, often air or a liquid coolant
- 15. a form of malicious software
- 17. computer software that transforms computer code written in one programming language into another programming language
- 19. output device which displays information in pictorial form
- 20. hand-held pointing device that detects two-dimensional motion relative to a surface
Down
- 1. general-purpose computer programming language
- 3. flow of data across the network
- 4. manufacturer and seller of a wide variety of office equipment including scanners, printers, and multifunction systems that scan, print, copy, email and fax
- 5. file format that supports lossless data compression
- 6. a file system cataloging structure which contains references to other computer files
- 8. world's largest network
- 9. a method, often secret, of bypassing normal authentication or encryption in a computer system
- 10. computer program that is the core of a computer's operating system, with complete control over everything in the system
- 12. manufacturer of processors, motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits etc
- 16. firmware that comes pre-installed on a personal computer's system board, and it is the first software run when powered on
- 18. network hardware device that modulates one or more carrier wave signals to encode digital information for transmission and demodulates signals to decode the transmitted information