Just curious. Does AmigaOS 4 or 4.1 still have the same ability to just "shut off"?
Yes.
What exactly is it that allows AmigaOS to just shut off without the problems of the other operating systems. Don't be too technical please. :-D
A not-idiotic design. :-) I always felt that icon and window snapshotting and the ENV:/ENVARC: separation had a lot to do with it. With Windows (and sometimes Linux), I find it impossible to force settings to be saved - it's almost as if Windows *moves* settings from disk to RAM on bootup, rather than copying them, and only a clean shutdown will re-commit them to disk.