There was no native support for command line apps (in part because the cooperative multitasking model is not especially conductive to such things), but at least

There was no native support for command line apps (in part because the cooperative multitasking model is not especially conductive to such things), but at least some Win16 development environments came with libraries for emulating console applications (eg. BP7 and Delphi 1 had unit WinCRT which did exactly that).