They are using a different meaning. The particular meaning of the word console here most definitely is a well-defined I/O abstraction, and all of your argument

They are using a different meaning. The particular meaning of the word console here most definitely is a well-defined I/O abstraction, and all of your argument about how console might mean something else and therefore there's no well-defined notion of a console in Windows is going completely overboard. And it's sad that, despite the XTerm FAQ, you don't see the irony of waving around "VT100 compatible" as something supposedly well-defined, when the vt10x terminal types and the misapplied and sometimes downright erroneous notion of compatibility with various VT models has been the bane of users down the years. Here's another FAQ document. * https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#no_padding https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#no_pad...