ESRI's flagship professional GIS at the time, Arc/INFO, was based on a command line interface and was not accessible to users that only needed view and query capability. ArcView 1.0 ĪrcView 1.0 was released in 1991 to provide access to GIS for non-traditional users of the technology. The simple GUI was preferred by many over the less user friendly, more powerful ARC/INFO that was primarily used from a Command-line interface. In subsequent versions, more functionality was added to ArcView and it became a true GIS program capable of complex analysis and data management. History ĪrcView started as a graphical program for spatial data and maps made using ESRI's other software products. Regardless of it being discontinued and replaced, some users still find the software useful and hold the opinion it is a superior product for some tasks. It was replaced by new product line, ArcGIS, in 2000. ArcView 3.3: Windows, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, Digital UNIX, HP-UXĪrcView 3.0a: in addition Classic Mac OS, DG/UXĪrcView GIS was a geographic information system software product produced by ESRI.
