[win_ini]

To this day - many API calls on iOS reference "NS" as a prefix. That's from "NextStep"

Acronyms take on their own life sometimes.

[marbletiles]

The original NeXTSTEP prefix was "NX"; NS came about after OpenStep, the joint project with Sun — hence Next/Sun as the prefix.

http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/136618-what-does-n...