The Console has been a feature of operating systems since some of the earliest text-based devices. These forms of command-line interfaces (CLI) are used to primarily process scripted commands using a series of read operations to accept user input, and write operations to display feedback to the user.

Well known command-line interfaces

Some of the more well-known CLIs include

• Windows Command prompt available on Microsoft Windows based platforms
• Bash, available on all platforms, but primarly Unix-based operating systems and Macs
• COMMAND.COM, the legacy CLI presented in MS DOS and older versions of Windows (95, 98 and ME)