Hyperspace

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hyperspace

/hi:´per·spays/ Usage: n. See Also: jump off into never-never land

hyperspace: /hi:´per·spays/ n.

A memory location that is far away from where the program counter should be pointing, especially a place that is inaccessible because it is not even mapped in by the virtual-memory system. "Another core dump -- looks like the program jumped off to hyperspace somehow." (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.

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