Posted by Fides, etc. on January 26, 19101 at 14:20:04:
In Reply to: Re: Christ OS: the Fall - You must be "carbonized" posted by Philoman on January 26, 19101 at 08:19:06:
Hey Philo,
I liked this very much--especially the OS X part. I was at CompUSA today and they had a demo of OS X running on an iMac. Some of the software on OS X was written for OS X and will run only on OS X. I think they called that Cocoa versions. Others ran on both OS X and OS 9.x--the carbonized software you mentioned. Others ran on OS 9.x only; Classic software.
The demo teacher opened a Cocoa word processor and it worked fine, of course. Next, he opened AppleWorks 6.0, which is a Carbonized app, and it worked just fine, too--had all the OS X interface buttons, bells and whistles to use.
Then came the really cool part. He clicked on Eudora 4.3, which is not carbonized. OS X opened OS 9.x, which is called Classic, and then Eudora opened in Classic/OS 9.x. There was OS 9.x, working within the OS X environment: very cool indeed! When done, he closed Eudora, then quit Classic/OS 9.x, and we're back to OS X only.
If what you're saying, Philo, is that our situation now is like OS 9.x (Human OS) working inside the OS X (Christ OX) environment, I can buy it. We're like OS 9.x/Classic software running on Classic inside the OS X environment. As we become carbonized, we run less on Classic and more on the OS X code.
This responds to some of the concerns I had: radical discontinutiy in evolution; the importance of faith, baptism, grace. I can even see how some apps might never move up to OS X, which would be a kind of Hell. Good job!
I work mostly on Windows, and I've never seen anything on Windows similar to what I described above. Maybe using DOS inside of Windows would come close, but DOS is not making use of Windows in the same way that OS 9.x was running is OS X.
Pax, etc.
Fe