would it be abandonware if apple no longer supports it?
No. "abandonware" is generally used for software that is either:
A. From companies that no longer exist, and for whom, while the copyright may still be legally enforcable, there is nobody who claims the copyright to enforce it.
B. From companies that have openly said that the software is free to distribute.
For example, Apple freely distributes Mac OS 7.5, so that is "abandonware". They do *NOT* freely distribute Mac OS 8.0, so it is not. In the past, Apple was very rabid about protecting their "abandoned" software copyrights, even for obsolete software. In the past, Apple even went after sites distributing Macintosh System Software prior to version 5.0, which was software Apple gave out free when it was new! (i.e. it is now extremely hard to (legally) find copies of the Mac OS that run on a Macintosh 128k, because Apple shut down all legitimate distribution sources.)
P.S., the Application Recovery (and System Recovery) CDs are also illegal to distribute. They were licensed only to authorized service providers, for the sole purpose of restoring software that the user legally had a license to. They were not intended even for 'training' of technicians. SOLELY for restoring legally licensed software. Yes, I own physical copies of multiple releases of those CDs, because I was an authorized service provider when they were new.
