Command-line interfaces (CLI) and prompts were the standard interface for computers from the early days of computing into the 1980s. Microsoft MS-DOS systems and other early consumer-based computers used CLIs.
Current Windows systems offer the command prompt, which is a CLI for administrative tasks and works on the basis of the command entered in its text-based user interface. In the Windows OS, Command Prompt is an application (program) is used to execute administrative or troubleshooting commands, automate repetitive tasks, run groups of scripts and shut down processes.
A popular misnomer for the Windows Command Prompt is DOS prompt. The Windows CLI and DOS CLI are not the same, although the former includes some of the command-line abilities of the latter.
Other names for the Windows Command Prompt are as follows: