A short presentation of the main characteristics and peculiar aspects of the RFP configuration is given. Confinement data from a number of experiments, which have been operated after 1980, are recalled; the main emphasis is on results from MST and RFX, the two largest existing devices, RFX, with a current capability of 2 MA, in the first two years has been operated at low currents (350+700) kA, mainly to compare different modes of creating the RFP configuration, to study field error effects and plasma wall interaction, to improve and optimize, in particular by current and field control, the discharge parameters. The reported results are in line with expectations.