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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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