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HyperSpace
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HyperSpace
An instant-on operating system from Phoenix Technologies Ltd. (www.hyperspace.com) that can run stand alone or co-exist with Windows. As soon as the computer is turned on, the Linux-based HyperSpace enables access to the Web and other HyperSpace applications. It draws less power than Windows and can provide as much as 30% more running time on a battery charge. HyperSpace also automatically switches the computer between Ethernet, Wi-Fi and 3G networks.

HyperSpace Single runs as the primary operating system in the computer. HyperSpace Dual runs side-by-side with Windows. See instant-on operating system.
hyperspace - /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.
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The phrase is the message left by the dolphins when they departed earth just before it was demolished to make way for a hyperspatial express route.
Axed councillor's Lib-Dem rant; Bradley defends 'aggressive' style ... by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
Pyanfar Chanur, in the Chanur sequence, is also constantly shedding fur and showering (as a result of the stress of hyperspatial travel).
C. J. Cherryh: the ties that bind by Clark, Stephen R.L. / Yearbook of English Studies
In 1921, Theodor Kaluza extended Albert Einstein's recently developed theory of General Relativity (GR) to include electromagnetism in what was believed to have been the first hyperspatial theory of the single field.
Single field unification and consciousness by Beichler, James E. / Frontier Perspectives
 
 
 
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