You are conflating and confusing several different things, including what operating systems even had a terminal paradigm. Windows NT started out with a "consol

You are conflating and confusing several different things, including what operating systems even had a terminal paradigm. Windows NT started out with a "console" paradigm, like OS/2 before it, not a "terminal" one. And command processors like CMD are not what provide the "console" parts of those systems.