query: commissioned_by berkeley risc
supports: Berkeley RISC was one of two seminal research projects into RISC - based microprocessor design taking place under ARPA 's VLSI project . RISC was led by David Patterson ( who coined the term RISC ) at the University of California , Berkeley between 1980 and 1984 . The other project took place only a short drive away at Stanford University under their MIPS effort starting in 1981 and running until 1984 . Berkeley 's project was so successful that it became the name for all similar designs to follow ; even the MIPS would become known as a `` RISC processor '' . The Berkeley RISC design was later commercialized as the SPARC processor , and inspired the landmark DEC Alpha architecture as well as the ARM architecture which by 2014 powers most mobile phones . DARPA's VLSI Project provided research funding to a wide variety of university-based teams in an effort to improve the state of the art in microprocessor design, then known as VLSI. Although little known in comparison to their work on what became the internet, the VLSI Project is likely one of the most influential research projects in modern computer history. Its offspring include BSD Unix, the RISC processor concept, many CAD tools still in use today, 32-bit graphics workstations, fabless design houses and its own fab, MOSIS. A similar DARPA project partnering with industry, VHSIC, is generally considered to have had little or no impact. Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, developed starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
candidates: at & t darpa
answer: darpa