Across
- 2. An alternative architecture that offered smaller instruction set.
- 4. A software that provides a necessary set of functions allowing software packages to control the computer’s hardware.
- 5. It allows a process to be subdivided into different threads of control.
- 7. It is a separate program that converts the entire source program into machine language before executing it.
- 8. A type of RAID that carries 2-levels of error protection over striped data.
- 10. An alternative architecture that is similar to adding another lane to a busy single-lane highway.
- 11. An I/O control method wherein the device tells the CPU when they have data to send.
- 14. It is the machine language version that results from compiling 3GL.
- 15. A type of processing wherein professional operators combine decks of cards into batches, or bundles.
- 16. An example of this type of OS is IOS-6.
- 19. A protocol exchange wherein the receiver acknowledges the commands and data sent to it or indicate that it is ready to receive data.
Down
- 1. A storage device that is called direct access storage device, because the blocks of data can be accessed according to their location on the disk.
- 3. A human interface the requires the user to know the syntax of the system.
- 6. Type of RAID that is also called as drive spanning or disk striping.
- 9. It is a subsystem of components that move coded data between an external device and a host system.
- 12. An OS service wherein its concern is the price of components and it is preferable to allow them to be shared.
- 13. It is the heart of the OS services.
- 17. A type of short-term scheduling wherein each process is allocated a certain slice of CPU time.
- 18. An example of this I/O control method is embedded system that control or monitor environmental events.
- 20. It is used by the process manager, scheduler, resource manager, and I/O manager.