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When Apple acquired NEXT in 1996, they mostly did it so Jobs could return to his previous role. But Apple/Jobs also saw the NEXT OS as a serious improvement over the existing Mac OS.
Because of this, Apple chose to build the next OS on top of NEXT. In fact, up until recently (might even still be the case) if you peeked into the source code of OSX you would still find original unmodified NEXT files. So in some ways if you’re running OSX you are still running part of NEXT.
When Apple acquired NEXT in 1996, they mostly did it so Jobs could return to his previous role. But Apple/Jobs also saw the NEXT OS as a serious improvement over the existing Mac OS.
Because of this, Apple chose to build the next OS on top of NEXT. In fact, up until recently (might even still be the case) if you peeked into the source code of OSX you would still find original unmodified NEXT files. So in some ways if you’re running OSX you are still running part of NEXT.
That's why tons of classes have NS in the beginning, Next Step.