如同早期受制于计算机厂家的软件，后来客户同样受制于软件商的应用程序和升级服务。
Just as customers used to be locked into computer-makers' software, so too were they later beholden to certain applications and upgrades from software vendors.
它在某些方面不正确，因为单核处理器的计算能力已经提高，计算机厂家现在仅能提供通过创建多核处理器来提高性能。
It is only somewhat not true because whereas computing power had been increased on a single-core processor, computer manufacturers can now only increase capacity by creating multi-core processors.
这是一个老问题了，在上世纪60年代计算机首次商业发售时，都配有厂家的软件，甚至是出租而不是立即卖掉。
This is an old problem. When computers were first released commercially in the 1960s, they came with the manufacturer's software, and were even leased rather than sold outright.
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