Alternatively the output could be redirected to /dev/null, couldn't it?
> With a multitasking environment such as FreeMiNT+XaAES, sending text to
> the console is not a good thing. Even with FreeMiNT, the default console
> is handled by the BIOS in full screen. With standard hardware, the VDI
> and the BIOS console share the same screen memory. When both are used at
> the same time, this produces screen corruption (text printed over
> graphics, etc.). With special VDI drivers (ARAnyM+fVDI, maybe some
> graphics cards...), the BIOS console output is not displayed at all.
> This is why TosWin2 has the Console window. Combined to xconout2.xdd
> support, it allows to redirect the text sent to the BIOS console into
> the Console window. This is cleaner, and works with any graphics card.