The console is a character-based console device.
Generally when the standard stream are available, we have a console connection.
Console are not shell.
A console is typically connected to the keyboard and display from which it was launched.
A command line interpreter will typically redirects the standard input and output streams to the console (except if its script is started by a job scheduler)
A console application is working with in/out streams and (usually) do not have any graphical interface.
A console window is known as a local terminal
When user starts a terminal, it runs some console application (ie command line interpreter)
Why is stdout attached to the console so slow