>"Every output is based on IPC and calls to the event logger." What does that even mean? I think you're painting an incorrect picture of the design goals of N

>"Every output is based on IPC and calls to the event logger." What does that even mean? I think you're painting an incorrect picture of the design goals of NT. The original NT was designed by a group of people (e.g. Cutler) with VMS background and they sure as hell didn't have any GUI in mind. In fact, Windows came to the picture much later. Whether NT is administered by a GUI or CLI is totally irrelevant to NT design. Today all the NT derivatives (Windows Server) can be administered with a rich variety of command line tools. Stdout exists because the original subsystems (OS/2, Windows, MS-DOS) required that. Same applies TODAY. Where is the NT bias to GUIs exactly?