A δ-uniform BSS machine is a standard BSS machine which does not rely on exact equality tests. We prove that, for any real closed archimedean field R, a set is δ-uniformly semi-decidable iff it is open and semi-decidable by a BSS machine which is locally time bounded; we also prove that the local time bound condition is nontrivial. This entails a number of results about BSS machines, in particu...