/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] (1994-11-23)