To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy. [imp. & p. p. Abdicated ( ); p. pr.
History of IR and FTIR spectroscopy. Chemical IR spectroscopy was emerged as a science in 1800 by Sir William Herschel. Firstly most IR instrumentation was based on prism or grating monochromators. Michelson invented interferometer in 1881.
Bill Gates and Allen Paul soon took on this task and this partnership with Ed Roberts eventually led to the first product made by Microsoft the Altair BASIC. Microsoft was created in 1976 Altair BASIC was an programming language which ran on the MITS Altair 8800.