On: Steve Jobs Talks About His Rise and Fall (1985)

[rahoulb]

Cocoa IS Nextstep - which is why the class names are prefixed NS

[pavlov → rahoulb]

Trivia: actually "NS" stands for "NeXT & Sun". Old NeXT classes had an NX* prefix. (There are still a few of those lingering in Cocoa.)

The NS prefix was adopted as part of the NextStep -> OpenStep transition around 1993, when Sun was planning to use OpenStep as their main desktop environment. That never happened because soon Sun got Java religion and dumped OpenStep.

[Synaesthesia → pavlov]

I didn't know that. In fact everywhere I have read, it is assumed that NS stands for NeXTStep. Thanks!

[rahoulb → pavlov]

I didnt know that either! Cheers