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by win_ini 3203 days ago
To this day - many API calls on iOS reference "NS" as a prefix. That's from "NextStep"

Acronyms take on their own life sometimes.

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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...