That's blatantly not true. You have to press:
ctrl+esc, up arrow, enter, c, m, d, enter, alt+m, enter
(or something along those lines)
And in the end I'm pretty sure the windows command prompt doesn't allow you to maximise it because it can't adapt to the changing line and row number.
Also how do you get Windows 95 to manage your X session? ;)
Seriously though, we're all talking about Linux here.
edit: I understand your confusion now, I think you failed to realise that meta+enter also opens the said terminal