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hyperspace
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/hi:perspays/ , 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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