General Electric


General Electric

(company)(GE) A US company that manufactured computers from1956 until 1970, when it sold its computer division toHoneywell and left the computer business. Notable GEcomputers were the GE-265, which supported the Dartmouth Time-sharing System (DTSS), and the GE-645 used forMultics development.

See also GCOS.

Not to be confused with the General Electric Company (GEC) inthe UK (where FOLDOC's first seeds were sown).