Across
- 2. any part of a computer that has a physical structure.
- 7. stands for central processing unit. It’s job is to carry out commands.
- 9. can only be modified and distributed by the company that owns it.
- 10. any set of instructions that tells the computer hardware what to do.
- 12. another name for decompressing a file.
- 13. another name for CPU
- 15. considered the most popular operating system in the world.
- 16. a computer that serves up information to other computers on a network.
- 17. the process of opening or bringing back to its original size, a compressed file.
Down
- 1. because it uses less disk space.
- 3. hardware and software.
- 4. store, retrieve, and process data.
- 5. when you press the power button your computer does three things: runs tests to make sure everything is running correctly; checks for new hardware; and starts up the operating system.
- 6. the most important software on a computer and manages the computer’s memory and processes, as well as all of the hardware and software.
- 8. free and can be modified and distributed by anyone around the world.
- 11. a process in which files are compressed or “shrunk” into a smaller file. The smaller file is called a Compressed File.
- 14. another name for compressing a file.