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		mepian on Jan 22, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 1: Installation As far as I know, "NS" actually stands for "NeXT and Sun", and the original prefix before OPENSTEP was "NX".

gdubs on Jan 22, 2020 | [–]

Had to do some googling, which led me full-circle back to HN :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15977053

mepian on Jan 22, 2020 | | [–]

Interesting, the explanation that it stands for "NeXT Software, Inc" that came up in the parent thread seems plausible.

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