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The Amiga terminal is simple in some ways, but it supports stuff most Unix terminals, won't, such as the ability to shift the text positioning by individual pixels in both x and y direction, which was of course promptly "abused" to draw bitmap graphics (exceedingly slowly) to the terminal.

MS-DOS had ANSI support with ANSI.SYS [0], that support never got into Windows NT's CMD.COM.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI.SYS

Yeah, but that is a device driver, not part of the command.com itself.

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.

Windows might even support 3 if you count cmd and powershell separately :lolsob:

cmd and powershell are shells, not terminals.