The Terror is just an unfortunate episode of the French Revolution, not the whole story. All what has been discussed and achieved the Assemblée Constituante, 1789-07-09 to 1791-09-30, is indeed, to me, beautiful.
Full disclosure: Yes, I'm French.

Transputers had 4 HW links -- those are probably the easiest part to replicate in current processors.
The difficult part is the threading model: Transputers had their own thread model. Scheduler was hardwired in silicon, together with a couple of dedicated instructions. SW could not tell the difference between a local and a remote communication. Efficient, but not very flexible in terms of OS architecture.