Yes, they are special, but...

["Patrick A. O'Donnell" <pao@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU>]

    Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 10:15 EDT
    From: "TSD::AIP1::\"Len%HEART-OF-GOLD\"%atc.bendix.com"%RELAY.CS.NET@warbucks.ai.sri.com
    Date: Mon, 12 Jun 89 10:04 EDT
    From: Len Moskowitz <Len@HEART-OF-GOLD>
 
    They would be general purpose if one of our "general purpose"
    programmers could sit down at a Symbolics workstation, boot up a
    familiar OS, get to work in their language of choice, and get reasonable
    performance.

Hmmm... by this definition, Suns are NOT general purpose, nor are PC's
or Macs---at least by my experience.
		- Pat