Acknowledgements

Many people in the Online Computing group of CERN's computing division and in collaborating institutes have been involved in the development of the RPC system, including T. Adye (RAL), R. Bagnara (CERN), D. Gosman (NIKHEF), R. Jones (CERN), I. Martinez (Univ. of Santander), A. Pastore (CERN), J. Raab (CERN), N. Schraudolph (Univ. of Essex), L. Tremblet (CERN). I am also indebted to my group leader, D.M. Sendall, and to B. Segal for their encouragement and advice.

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