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.
[glossary]
[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {deep space}{jump off into never-never land}]