If you want to create more problems, just lets change the byte from the
octetos to decanos (decades).
Then a byte will have 10 bits, and will represent 1024 combinations,
than, we would be a little bit closer to what te caotic system created
with kbits and kBytes.

Then you can say that 1kByte is exactly 10^4 cells, that a MByte is
exactly 10^7 cells.

So, two bytes addressing system would access the infame actual "1MByte"
of address space.

It would take byte counts to means 2^10 new steps in addressing,

1 byte  = actual infame 1kByte
2 bytes = actual infame 1MByte
3 bytes = actual infame 1GByte
4 bytes = actual infame 1TByte

It would make more sense.  I vote for that.. lets make this a complete
caos... Y2K problems would be small peanuts compared to this new
computer revolution... Lets wake up Bill Gates and tell him about this:
"The world is waiting the Windows2000 with bytes in decanos, not
octatos"... lets make him worried a little bit^10.

By the way, PIC doesn't use 14 bits? hmmm, it makes me think about
something...

hey, that's just a joke.

Wagner.