Computer Basics

5. Card Interfaces a display to a computer. it's role is to generate signals that are understood by displays so that you can actually see what you are doing on the computer
7. law The observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
8. A device that forwards data packets between computer networks, creating an overlay internetwork.
10. The conversion of data into a form, called a ciphertext that cannot be easily understood by unauthorized people.

1. A mode of data transmission in which a message is broken into a number of parts that are sent independently, over whatever route is optimum for each packet, and reassembled at the destination.
2. self-contained storage device containing a read-write mechanism
3. The individual dots that compose a picture
4. The hardware within a computer that carries out the instructions of a computer program by performing the basic arithmetical, logical, and input/output operations of the system.
6. A group of binary digits or bits (usually eight) operated on as a unit.
9. Every device connected to a network has one.
11. The amount o pixels in the display of a computer.