Across
- 2. The state of execution of a program in a system. It is the basic unit of a work that shows a task under work or on the way to getting executed
- 5. A background process in the operating system that performs service tasks.
- 10. A memory management technique. In it, memory is divided into many simpler parts.
- 11. is an interface for user interaction with the operating system, which can be graphical (GUI) or command-based (CLI).
- 13. The file that starts the process in the operating system.
- 14. Software component that lets the operating system and a device communicate.
- 15. A program that loads the operating system at startup.
Down
- 1. A condition in the operating system when there are high-priority tasks that keep executing and the low-priority jobs are in the waiting queue for a very long time.
- 3. Special kind of software that is used to handle process scheduling on a disk..
- 4. Property of an operating system or runtime environment to enable parallel (or pseudo—parallel) processing of multiple tasks.
- 6. Refers to a single sequential flow of activities being executed in a process.
- 7. The signal which is sent by either hardware or software when immediate attention by a process is required.
- 8. Central part of an operating system that provides applications with coordinated access to computer resources such as processor time, memory, external hardware, and an external input and output device.
- 9. A situation where several processes are waiting for each other and cannot continue execution.
- 12. Middle layer between the operating system and the hardware of a system.
