THE BEST SIDE OF ACGWIN

The Cygwin DLL has a console driver that emulates a Unix-fashion terminal in the Home windows console. Cygwin's default person interface would be the bash shell running inside the Cygwin console. The DLL also implements pseudo terminal (pty) devices. Cygwin ships with a variety of terminal emulators that are according to them, such as mintty, rxvt/