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Give three hardware considerations that should be made before installing an operating system.

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–Type of computer in terms of size and make

-Memory capacity

-The number of processors and hardware it can support

-Processor speed

-Hard disk capacity

maurice.mutuku answered the question on November 7, 2019 at 08:39

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