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Windows 10 comes with cmd.exe and power shell, both include their own terminal emulators. Windows 11 comes with both and with windows terminal on top of it.
by nrabulinski 4y ago
Windows 10 comes with cmd.exe and power shell, both include their own terminal emulators. Windows 11 comes with both and with windows terminal on top of it.
- legalcorrection 4y agoNo, that's not right. conhost.exe is the old terminal emulator and Windows Terminal is the new one. cmd.exe and powershell are analogous to bash/zsh/etc. and can run inside either conhost.exe or Windows Terminal.
- mixmastamyk 4y agoConhost is not really a terminal emulator, except in the sense that it’s a square box to type into. It is not an emulator. Design, Architecture, implementation all completely different and gimped.
- legalcorrection 4y agoYes good point. One of the things that annoys me most about HNers is that they think Unix is the one true OS paradigm and measure all other designs by how similar they are. And here I am doing it myself.
- hulitu 4y agoOur OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, in kernel as it is in user! Give us this day our daily cycles, And forgive us our GOTO's As we forgive them that also use BASIC. Lead us not into FORTRAN, But deliver us from COBOL. For thine is the for loop, the while and the switch For ever and ever, Amen.
- vetinari 4y agocmd.exe and powershell do not include "terminal emulators". Pre-Windows Terminal, they (and every other console app) use conhost.exe, that comes with the system. Windows Terminal comes with openconsole.exe, that any app can use instead. In Windows 11, it can be set up as the default one.