Tech

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• Silicon wafer packed with microscopic integrated circuits (4)
• Duplicate archive maintained to recover from system failure or data loss (6)
• Server machine that provides services to client nodes (4)
• Virtual endpoint number used to direct network traffic (4)
• Defensive barrier filtering incoming and outgoing network traffic (8)
• Raw facts and figures waiting to be processed (4)
• Clever technical enthusiast or unauthorized intruder into protected systems (6)

Down

• High-speed temporary storage designed for rapid data retrieval (5)
• Formal request submitted to extract records from a database (5)
• Maximum rate of data transfer across a given transmission path (9)
• Text-based user interface for entering shell commands directly (8)
• Underlying Boolean rules governing gate operations and circuits (5)
• The smallest addressable visual element on a display screen (5)
• Instructions written for a processor to execute (4)

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