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 jumpoff 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)