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How does the operating system regain control when multitasking? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: How does multitasking work (3 answers) Closed 11 years ago. I get how multiple processes can run on a single core by interleaving the processing. What I don’t understand is how the operating system ensures that the program releases the processor after a certain amount of time. If only […]