Why not Pentium III?

Word is out there that an individual is trying to develop Pentium III emulation as part of a fork of 86Box, regardless of how slow it is, in the name of hardware preservation". But why didn't we do it in the first place? Why did we, developers of a PC emulator clearly aimed at the preservation of hardware and software, limit ourselves to the Pentium II and an underperforming competitor (the VIA Cyrix III), and why did we do these two knowing they're already pretty slow to emulate? It's story time.

When I started reading this article I had no idea there was going to be some classic open source/forking drama at the end, but even with that, it's a good article and definitely worth a read.