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by JdeBP 2882 days ago
You're rather missing the fact that Windows does not have a terminal I/O model. It has a console model. Consoles are what the 1960s terminal model evolved into during the 1980s; from firmware-mediated access to CGA, through the VIO+KBD+MOU subsystems of OS/2, to Windows NT console objects.

* http://jdebp.info./FGA/tui-console-and-terminal-paradigms.ht...