hyperspace
/hi:'per-spays/ A memory location that is *far* away from where the program
counter should be pointing, often inaccessible because it is not even mapped in.
(Compare jump off into never-never land.)
This usage is from the SF notion of a spaceship jumping "into hyperspace", that
is, taking a shortcut through higher-dimensional space - in other words,
bypassing this universe. The variant "east hyperspace" is recorded among CMU and
Bliss hackers.
[Jargon File]
(1994-11-23)
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