@cindex starting Emacs
The usual way to invoke Emacs is with the shell command
-@command{emacs}. From a terminal window running in the X Window
-System, you can run Emacs in the background with @command{emacs &};
-this way, Emacs won't tie up the terminal window, so you can use it to
-run other shell commands.
+@command{emacs}. From a terminal window running a Unix shell in the X
+Window System, you can run Emacs in the background with @command{emacs
+&}; this way, Emacs won't tie up the terminal window, so you can use
+it to run other shell commands. (For comparable methods of starting
+Emacs on MS-Windows, see @ref{Windows Startup}.)
@cindex startup screen
When Emacs starts up, the initial frame displays a special buffer