ACGWIN FUNDAMENTALS EXPLAINED

The Cygwin DLL has a console driver that emulates a Unix-fashion terminal in the Home windows console. Cygwin's default user interface could be the bash shell jogging in the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) units. Cygwin ships with many terminal emulators which are based upon them, including mintty, rxvt/urxvt, and xter