Cherry pick String off-loading improvements from `wip-nanocoatexec`.
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1 # Intel 8086: DOS Family
3 Everyone's favorite 16-bit protected mode operating system.
5 # Cooperative Tasking
7 DOS has no threads, it even has no processes. Thus everything will be
8 multi-tasked.
10 # TSRs?
12 It is possible to have a fork in the background TSR running which runs the
13 JVM code. However that would be rather complex, although something similar
14 would be done with Palm OS.