http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25083
--- Comment #7 from Graham Inggs graham@nerve.org.za 2010-11-12 07:33:09 CST --- I connected an oscilloscope to the serial port while running HyperTerminal on Wine 1.3.6. I noticed that characters were being sent out of the port while a key was held down, but they were not echoed back to the screen.
While holding a key down to get a good trace on the 'scope I received a burst of characters on the screen. I then found that this burst occurs approximately every three seconds.