Actually, I'm the one using the specific terminology (from Win32) here. A console is a specific I/O abstraction, widely known as such. Whereas "I'd claim that

Actually, I'm the one using the specific terminology (from Win32) here. A console is a specific I/O abstraction, widely known as such. Whereas "I'd claim that a terminal system plus ncurses is a console" is your own idiosyncratic nonce definition, in contrast. Console I/O has a demonstrable evolution over the course of the 1980s, as I have already explained several times, a lot of which was to address the shortcomings of the 1960s terminal I/O model.