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]Last updated: 1994-11-23
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HyperNeWS ♦ Hyperscript ♦ hyperspace ♦ HyperSPARC ♦ Hyperstrict ♦ HyperTalk
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