[ih] David C. Walden

[Jack Haverty]

Dave's obituary is at:

https://www.olsonparent.com/obituary/David-Walden

In addition to everything else, Dave was one of the original ARPANET 
implementation team.  He actually "wrote the code" to create the net.  
More recently, he was very helpful in the efforts to research the IMP as 
prior art for a patent fight, and in the successful revival of the old 
IMP code starting from an old printout, and getting the IMP to actually 
run again on simulated hardware.

Jack Haverty

On 5/3/22 15:42, Dave Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> On 5/3/2022 6:04 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe via Internet-history wrote:
>> Dave was an Internet pioneer who between 1970 and 1976 appears in the
>> author list of at least 27 Internet RFC documents, spanning numbers 61
>> to 716.
>
> I did not have much interaction with Dave, back in the early days.  He 
> was, for me, merely one of the deservedly-vaunted BBN team.
>
> In more recent years, he was immediately friendly and supportive 
> during the odd email-origins pseudo-controversy developed and he 
> actively provided bits of help as he could.
>
> Our community has had quite an array of personalities that can be 
> challenging.
>
> Dave wasn't one of them. I am extremely to sorry he is gone.
>
> d/
>