sight: he canceled a business meeting to have lunch with her, and the following year, on March 18 1991, they got married in Yosemite. Steve only brought along a couple of guests in the lodge’s chapel, and the no-frills ceremony was conducted by his long-time Zen guru Kobun Chino. A few months later, Laurene gave birth to Steve’s second child, a baby boy named Reed Paul, after Steve’s alma mater (Reed College) and his father (Paul Jobs).

## Troubles at NeXT

Throughout 1990 and 1991, it became obvious to NeXT’s management that something was wrong with their computers. They believed it was a strategic error; that they should position themselves as makers of an emerging kind of computers, personal workstations, i.e. computers as powerful as workstations yet as easy to use as personal computers. Their competitors were not Apple or other PC brands anymore, but Sun, the

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