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Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server by mintplant on Friday April 21, 2023 @01:11AM (#35650012)
> That’s why all of its API identifiers have the prefix `Ns_` (or `NS_` or `ns`, depending on the kind of identifier). Kind of like how (coincidentally) Apple’s Foundation and AppKit frameworks use the prefix `NS`, because those came from Nextstep.

Also lots of stuff at Mozilla, because of Netscape. Usually signifies an older part of the Firefox codebase.

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Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server by toyg on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:55AM (#35653789)
Ironically, all of these are NameSpaces (NS!) that... end up basically sharing the same namespace.
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Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server by santoshalper on Friday April 21, 2023 @12:26PM (#35656142)
I always thought they meant namespace. In a weird, indirect way, they did!
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