THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ACGWIN

The Cygwin DLL has a console driver that emulates a Unix-design terminal inside the Home windows console. Cygwin's default user interface could be the bash shell operating within the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) products. Cygwin ships with several terminal emulators that are dependant on them, such as mintty, rxvt/u