What can `NSWindows95OperatingSystem` be used for in iOS?

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From https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSProcessInfo_Class/Reference/Reference.html

NSWindows95OperatingSystem

Indicates the Windows 95 operating system. Available in iOS 2.0 and later.

Declared in NSProcessInfo.h.

What is this for?

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what are you trying to do with it? – Hashmat Khalil
whatever i can .... just don't know what it is. seriously, we just found it by code completion (actually a colleague did) and asked ourselves about the meaning. – Kai Huppmann
It is just part of cocoa, on which the iOS SDK is build. Probably Apple also has a Cocoa version for the windows platform or may be is form the earlier day of NextStep. – rckoenes

1 Answers

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This is likely a relict from earlier days, when NeXTSTEP was ported to other platforms. For example, "OPENSTEP" was developed by NeXT together with Sun Microsystems which ran on Solaris and WindowsNT.

See also wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep

Early documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/802-2112/802-2112.pdf