We should adopt the telecom term octet, and just get rid of the term byte. Then again "Megaoctet" doesn't quite flow, but there would be no confusion between a

We should adopt the telecom term octet, and just get rid of the term byte. Then again "Megaoctet" doesn't quite flow, but there would be no confusion between a bit and an octet however you abbreviate it. We're still left with is deciding whether to multiply by 1000 or 1024 for each magnitude though.