/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)