Across
- 3. - a program that stores documents to be printed on the hard drive, thereby freeing the memory up and allowing other functions to be performed while printing goes on in the background.
- 4. - to insert text, or other material, from the clipboard or copy buffer.
- 5. - a switch on the Mac that restarts the computer in the event of a crash or freeze.
- 6. - the main hard drive window.
- 9. - acronym for personal computer, commonly used to refer to an IBM or IBM clone computer which uses DOS.
- 10. - a family of Macs built around the PowerPC chip.
- 12. - the small square at the lower right corner of a window which, when dragged, resizes the window.
- 15. - an add-on component to your computer.
- 17. - acronym for Reduced Instruction Set Computing; the smaller set of commands used by the PowerPC and Power Mac.
- 20. - the Apple system extension that gives one the ability to compress, edit and play animation, movies and sound on the Mac.
Down
- 1. - the system software that controls the computer.
- 2. - acronym for Random-Access Memory.
- 7. - a high-capacity storage medium that is read by a laser light.
- 8. - acronym for Read Only Memory; memory that can only be read from and not written to.
- 9. - a small floating window that contains tools used in a given application.
- 11. - a processing chip designed by Apple, IBM and Motorola (RISC based).
- 13. - a subdivision of a hard drives surface that is defined and used as a separate drive.
- 14. - a connection socket, or jack on the Mac.
- 16. - any menu that does not appear at the top of the screen in the menu bar. (may pop up or down)
- 18. - (1/72") 12 points = one pica in printing.
- 19. - acronym for Peripheral Component Interchange - the newer, faster bus achitecture.
