For the time, OS/2 was an amazingly good OS. It shamed NT, revealing what a complete piece of shit NT was to use.

Most anything good in NT was directly stolen from OS/2.

The legacy of OS/2 lives on in Windows today. But it took them more than a decade of development to bring parity to what OS/2 originally delivered. At the time, the only thing mainstream which could compare was Unix and Next (IIRC, also ran a Unix).

My favorite OS/2 commercial was the Windows user interviews: "What do you do when you print?" "Oh, I usually do my nails and when I finish I can use the computer again."

1.8G doesn't seem too much, but rather than download the whole thing, what should we look for?

I think there are mirrors of this, if the chatter on usenet is to be believed.