On a side note, I always found the French word "octet" much better than "byte". First off, it avoid confusion with the unit naming (b = bits, o = octet, whereas B/b can be confused for byte / bit) and it is also much precise, octet = octo = 8, so an octet is 8 bits. On the other end, a byte doesn't really tell you what it is only "commonly" 8 bits.