State the term dispatcher

State the term dispatcher.

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Dispatcher module provides control of the CPU to the process chosen by the short-term scheduler; it involves:

• Switching context and
• Switching to user mode and
• Jumping to the proper location in the user program to restart such program
• Dispatch latency time - this takes for the dispatcher to stop one process and start other running.

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