THE BEST SIDE OF ACGWIN

The Cygwin DLL includes a console driver that emulates a Unix-style terminal inside the Home windows console. Cygwin's default person interface may be the bash shell jogging within the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) units. Cygwin ships with many terminal emulators which can be based upon them, including mintty, rxvt/u