Speed mattered, too, and he tested The WEB to see how fast it could move files from one Kaypro 10 to another.
“We set up machines A, B, and C,” said Madden. “We had machine A giving the commands for a file to be copied from machine B to machine C. At the same time, we had C transfer a file from A to B, and we had B transfer a file from A to C.
“People at all three machines hit the return keys at the same time”—to give them commands—“and then we watched what would happen.
“We found that the machines copied the files without errors in maybe one minute.” And the files were about 100K long, around fifty double-spaced typewritten pages.
Madden also tried another test to see how much The WEB would slow down the speed at which people could run programs. He compared:
1. How long a Kaypro took to sort dBASE II files electronically while not hooked up to the network.
2. How long it took while connected to the network.
3. How long a second Kaypro needed to sort the dBASE files in the first machine via the network.
“In each case,” said Madden, “there was an increase in time, but it was still acceptable.”
So Carsonville bought The WEB and saved a pile compared to doing it with an old or a new mini.