Random thoughts about the advancement of CPU's.

1995: Pentium P54C, 1 Core, 120 MHz

What people said about emulating the N64: It will never happen!

2000: Pentium 3 1000B, 1 Core, 1 GHz

What people said about emulating the N64: Wow, it's happening!

2001: What people said about emulating the PS2: It will never happen.

2005: Pentium Extreme Edition 840, 2 cores (4 threads), 3.2 GHz

What people said about emulating the PS2: It might be possible.

2009: i9 ES, 6 cores (12 threads), 2-3 GHz

What people say about emulating the PS2: Whoa, it will happen.
What people say about emulating the PS3: Never in a million years.

Nothing is impossible.