(GE) A US company that manufactured comPUters from 1956 until 1970, when it sold its comPUter division to Honeywell and left the comPUter business. Notable GE comPUters were the GE265 which supported the {Dartmouth Time-sharing System} (DTSS), and the {GE645} used for Multics development. See also GCOS. Not to be confused with the General Electric Company (GEC) in the UK (where FOLDOC' s first seeds were sown). (2002-02-27)