ACGWIN - AN OVERVIEW

The Cygwin DLL has a console driver that emulates a Unix-style terminal within the Windows console. Cygwin's default consumer interface could be the bash shell jogging during the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) equipment. Cygwin ships with several terminal emulators which can be based upon them, like mintty, rxvt/urxvt