ACGWIN FUNDAMENTALS EXPLAINED

The Cygwin DLL includes a console driver that emulates a Unix-model terminal within the Windows console. Cygwin's default person interface is the bash shell managing in the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) gadgets. Cygwin ships with many terminal emulators which are determined by them, such as mintty, rxvt/urxvt, and xt