Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

R2FX

macrumors regular
Original poster
Mar 25, 2010
236
399
In the past it was common to be able to download Apple's own software for older versions of macOS / OS X. App Store would show a pop-up saying that the latest version is X but you can download the most compatible for your version of OS.

With the launch of Big Sur someone in Cupertino felt that the laggards are not welcome any longer in the Garden of Apple and they nuked all versions older than macOS Catalina. I tried to download Keynote and Server which have been in my purchase history for past 10+ years, but all I got was a pop-up telling me to upgrade to 10.15.

OK, I could (I don't want to though) do that on my Mac Pro 2013 and MBP 2014, but my 2 old MBP 17" Core 2 Duo are showing same pop-up and I missed the info that those machines can upgrade to macOS 15 (they run combinations of OS X 10.6, 10.8 and 10.9).

Does anybody have any suggestions? Direct download links perhaps... ?


UPDATE: scratch that... I was ignoring Security & Safari 14 updates due to the problems reported by many users. Once installed in a specific sequence the purchased files became available to download max version for Mojave.
 
Last edited:
Ironically, America Silicon Valley is naming all their new OS systems with American Countrysides and Islands.
In terms of psychology. They give them names of "Treasures" to keep them alive.

Are we celebrating now around X-Mas every year a dead and ending OS?

Regards,

BLACK BARON
Design / Photo / Art / Music
 
Ironically, America Silicon Valley is naming all their new OS systems with American Countrysides and Islands.
Nah, it's not that commonplace.

Apple originally named OS X after big cats. They later switched to California landmarks (not ones out of state) since they are proudly Californian. A long time ago, Apple used Sagan as an internal project name and the astronomer threw a fit so Apple changed the name but it was colloquially named BHA (Butt Headed Astronomer).

Intel has used river names for CPU designs for decades. The actual CPU chips are given alphanumeric model numbers like i7-1035G.

SGI used plant names internally back in the Nineties for their IRIX operating system.

AMD has recently used painters names (Renoir, Cezanne, Vermeer) but have previously mixed in other names like Polaris. The CPU and GPU products are given names like Ryzen, EPYC, or Radeon (the latter was inherited from ATI).

Nvidia has more recently used names of famous scientists (Turing, Ampere) for chip architecture but the actual GPU models are also numbers based like GeForce 2070 or 3080.

Microsoft -- a Washington company -- does not give place names for Windows operating system versions.
 
Last edited:
Apple originally named OS X after big cats. They later switched to California landmarks (not ones out of state) since they are proudly Californian. A long time ago, Apple used Sagan as an internal project name and the astronomer threw a fit so Apple changed the name but it was colloquially named BHA (Butt Headed Astronomer).
Don’t forget that when Sagan threw an additional fit over that, their legal team told them to change it again, so it was changed a second time to LAW (Lawyers Are Wimps)!
 
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.